Product Details

• Actors: Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, Uri Klauzner, Yoram Hattab, Guy Amir
• Directors: Amos Gitai
• Writers: Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme
• Producers: Amos Gitai, Laurent Truchot, Michel Propper
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Kino Video
• DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001
• Run Time: 124 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003CYBS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,661 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Kippur" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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KIPPUR - DVD Movie

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS is the true face of war, June 9, 2009

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Chief Rocko (Euclid, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kippur (DVD)

An amazing film. I've served in both the U.S. and Israeli militaries, and seen combat in both. This is the closest thing to reality I've ever seen in a film.

The confusion of the Yom Kippur War is legendary. I lost my brother and his wife during the first few days. This film is hard to watch, seeing the Israeli military of which I am so proud, struggle and stagger under hammer blows from Syria and Egypt. The traffic jams of civilians and military mixed up in complete confusion. The radio playing urgent announcements set to martial music followed by tapioca pop music. The newspaper announcements casually announcing cancellations of graduations and excursions, along with "Be strong and courageous" exhortations.

To anyone expecting a Hollywood "guts and glory film", or a peacenik "all soul searching and folly of war" story, go elsewhere - but it is YOU who SHOULD see this film. No epic battle scenes set to stirring music. The war is in the background yet all around. This is the war a foot soldier sees. Confusion, tedium, sadness, friendship... The scene in the mud is devastatingly gruelling - sorry Hollywood movie lovers, you're not going to see the hero, just finished reading a love letter from his sweetheart grabbing a wounded man and carrying him out single handed. No. Four burly men, stuck in an impossible situation, struggling to get one man out. The end of the scene is devastating, and the actors convey just how hopeless their characters feel. The scenes of fields torn to shreds by tanks, no apparent reason or order in the trails, is stunning.

There are so many amazing scenes in this film. The stark reality is brutal and pitiless. The helicopter crash landing is handled in a perfect way - no explosions and heroics, just men struggling to survive. As in real life, the survivors are not jumping into action, nor is there one hero who takes charge. They are stunned and hurt, the world stands still.

This film is a must see. This film is Israel. There is no bravado or flag waving, no depictions of "evil Arabs" (in one scene, the characters are looking at a newspaper, and grow quiet upon seeing a photo of a captured Syrian). Neither is there any scene of "evil Israelis" trying to oppress anyone or using dirty tricks. It is a depiction of a country at war, no marches, no speeches. A wounded pilot saying he wants to be with his mother. Two soldiers talking, and one saying "Here I was going to say I miss my girlfriend, and you've just told me about your mother and the Nazis". This is Israel. No miracles, paperwork in a hospital. No charges up hills, just confusion on a road. Used Fiats and soldiers grumbling about officers behind their backs.

I was not prepared for this movie. It was completely NOT what I was expecting. It is War As It Is. It is Israel. It is humanity.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dreamlike art house war movie, May 18, 2004

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M. Veiluva "sputnik99" (Walnut Creek, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kippur (DVD)

"Kippur" is not your typical war movie. There are no heroes - just two reservists who get swept up in the backwash of the 1973 Yom Kippur war while looking for their already mobilized and departed unit. It is like one of those nightmares where you know you have to be somewhere to take an exam/go to an interview/go to work, and somehow, you just can't get there.

Kippur tells us almost nothing about the details of the 1973 campaign (which Israel, surprised, came fairly close to losing, since it is really after conveying the sheer randomness and chaos of war from the worm's eye point of view. Unlike our modern Iraq adventures, it is likely the average grunt knew very little about what was happening in the next town or valley, or whether the war was being own or lost. The persepctive was interesting to someone raised with the media-enhanced viewpoint, after the 1967 war, that the Israeli military ran like a Swiss watch. In "Kippur", we learn that like our own army mired in Iraq, these are just weekend soldiers trying to get by.

This is a European-flavoured film, so it is bookended by equally dreamlike sex scenes ("Thin Red Line" tried this in a tamer way) which makes the movies' R-rating well deserved.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT film!! Destined to get a lukewarm response., October 16, 2001

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Rodney A. Brett (Emeryville, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kippur (DVD)

KIPPUR is a great film that is bound to get a negative response from general American audiences that are too used to the narrative cliques, characters, scenarios and general plot devises that have become the prerequisite elements in American war films of the past several decades(i.e. fast and disorienting battle scenes cut with slow metaphorical dramatic moments and flashback sequences). KIPPUR intellingently avoids these things NOT just for the sake of being different or to bore or annoy the audience but to show that the particular war being portrayed is an entirely different one altogether. What KIPPUR has accomplished through it's one-day time frame and linear narrative is the banality and monotany of a conflict like this. A war that seems almost like a dream to its inhabitants(the films moody slow jazz score contributes to this feel). The two main characters at the beginning of the film are literally "driving" to war, shooting the breeze as if going to a regular day of work. Here is a conflict that has dragged on for so long, that is has become engraved in the very culture and everyday routines of its people. You can see it in the faces of emotionally repressed men who have become desensitized to the violence and only become distraught when their initial defenses are broken down. The long take of the soldiers dragging and dropping the injured through the mud culminating in the weaping and arguing of the men clearly conveys the pointlessness of it all. These men cry not mainly because of a sense of indignation or sorrow but more out of sheer frustration. However, even despite these epiphanal moments of the human condition that are supposed to be self changing, the men really just want to get through the day and go home and continue there regular lives. Indeed, they do return home, unchanged, continuing their domestic routines, Slowly losing their soul. RECOMMEDED VIEWING.